tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22202011.post2523543883537397416..comments2023-12-11T08:49:46.305+00:00Comments on Dizzy Thinks: Gimmick SuggestionUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22202011.post-51266534729480508382008-02-23T13:52:00.000+00:002008-02-23T13:52:00.000+00:00The best discussion of this that I have seen is ov...The best discussion of this that I have seen is over at Iain Dale's blog.Little Black Sambohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16699227938165106710noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22202011.post-60381880785443223772008-02-23T10:35:00.000+00:002008-02-23T10:35:00.000+00:00Good fucking point or better stuill teach them ho...Good fucking point or better stuill teach them how to read or somethingNewmaniahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11922161971821380803noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22202011.post-4444253993065708412008-02-23T08:37:00.000+00:002008-02-23T08:37:00.000+00:00I would be happier sending Brown to Kolyma, what S...I would be happier sending Brown to Kolyma, what Solzhenitsyn called <I>'the pole of cold and cruelty'</I>.Croydonianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14670533609622717223noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22202011.post-64029569497389178392008-02-23T00:40:00.000+00:002008-02-23T00:40:00.000+00:00I have never visited either any of the Nazi or Com...I have never visited either any of the Nazi or Communist camps but I think I understand fully just how evil they were. <BR/><BR/>Do they all have to visit Ruanda, Guantánamo Bay, etc alsoAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22202011.post-28752639085041356262008-02-22T21:24:00.000+00:002008-02-22T21:24:00.000+00:00No not sixth formers - send random selections of f...No not sixth formers - send random selections of feral street youth to Auschwitcz, Treblinka, Novosibirsk - in fact any place far, far away.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22202011.post-62993802487800122602008-02-22T21:08:00.000+00:002008-02-22T21:08:00.000+00:00I do take the point about gimmicks, but... having ...I do take the point about gimmicks, but... having visited both 'Camps' and 'Gulags' there is, really is, a different order of magnitude as to what took place and why. <BR/><BR/>If you haven't visited Auschwitz and the various Soviet Gulags [try Karaganda or Spassk] I reccommend a trip for comparison. <BR/><BR/>At it's simplest people were intetnionally released from Gulags, whereas by way of comparison 32 people survived Treblinka - and their survival was emphatically not intentional !<BR/><BR/>Though comparisons between mass murders ansd murderers is a dangerous game the holocaust is quite different to the horrors of the Soviet system and requires commemoration. <BR/><BR/>Brown might have have used visits to the camps for political purposes, but no right minded person who has been there could stand by and allow us to start on that road again. For that I can forgive him a bit.Ski Testhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00171313421290526155noreply@blogger.com